Thursday, December 22, 2016

The new routes will connect the countries directly, boost bi-directional tourism and establish an important link for trade and business between Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In compliance with the public service obligation rules, all five markets will be served on a twice weekly basis with flights commencing the first week of April 2017.

Wizz Air is to reinforce its position as Hungary’s largest airline after being awarded rights to launch services to five West Balkan capital cities under the National Ministry of Development’s new public service obligation operation to serve these important economic links in the region. The Central and Eastern European low-cost specialist will introduce the flights from Budapest to Skopje in Macedonia, Podgorica in Montenegro, Tirana in Albania, Pristina in Kosovo and Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina from April 2017.

Earlier this year the Hungarian National Ministry of Development enacted that a public service obligation is imposed, and announced a public procurement tender for operating the routes connecting Hungary to these destinations in April 2016. It is understood that Wizz Air was the only operator to apply for rights to serve all the markets.

The terms of the agreement, which will run for a four-year period, will permit the low-cost carrier to seek financial compensation from the Hungarian Government for any losses it may incur. The airline is required to offer at least twice weekly flights for the entirety of the contract.

The new routes will connect the countries directly, boost bi-directional tourism and establish an important link for trade and business between Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In compliance with the rules, all five markets will be served on a twice weekly basis with flights commencing the first week of April 2017. They have all not been served since the collapse of Hungarian national carrier Malev at the start of 2012 - Montenegro Airlines also served the Podgorica – Budapest in summer 2006.

“This announcement further underlines our commitment to Hungary as de facto Hungarian national carrier and our activities at Budapest Airport, where Wizz Air has the most diverse network, offering 59 routes to 28 countries,” said József Váradi, chief executive officer, Wizz Air.

Wizz Air currently operates two Hungarian bases in Budapest and Debrecen with a total of eleven aircraft in the country and recently announced an additional aircraft to join the Budapest fleet from April 2017. Over the past year (12 months to November 2016) it has carried 3.4 million passengers on its low-fare Budapest routes and has already announced four new routes to be launched in 2017, namely Bergen, Faro, Hanover and Lamezia Terme.

“In the past few months we have made several major announcements including basing a new aircraft at Budapest in April, revealing the unique Budapest livery that is designed to promote the city with Budapest 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Bid elements and announced four new routes to start in 2017. We now add another five strategically important routes to our Budapest network,” said Váradi.

Analysis of Wizz Air’s current winter operations from OAG Schedules Analyser data shows the airline is currently serving 120 points in 37 countries. It has grown its capacity 17.6 per cent in 2016, the ninth year in the past ten that it has recorded double-digit growth. The budget carrier is delivering stable growth levels with year-on-year rises of 17.1 per cent in 2014 and 17.5 per cent in 2015 and has seen average annual growth of 15.3 per cent since the start of the decade.

Although Wizz Air may be Hungary’s de facto national carrier, the country is only the fifth largest in the airline’s network based on annual departure capacity with an 8.2 per cent share of seats, albeit it is the fastest growing of the airline’s top five country markets.

Poland is Wizz Air’s largest market with a 15.3 per cent capacity share, closely followed by the United Kingdom (14.3 per cent): the latter was the fastest growing major country market in 2016 with capacity growth of 30.6 per cent. The third and fourth largest country markets were Romania (12.4 per cent share) and Italy (8.3 per cent share), respectively.

The airline shows no signs of slowing its development and in the last couple of weeks alone it has announced plans to open a 27th base in the Bulgarian city of Varna, introduced a ninth aircraft to its Bucharest, Romania fleet, brought forward network expansion out of Katowice in Poland and revealed a massive expansion out of Cluj-Napoca in Romania.

The new Varna base, its second in Bulgaria, will open in July 2017 and will be home to a single A320 which will facilitate new routes to Dortmund and Munich Memmingen in Germany, Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Larnaca in Cyprus and Milan Bergamo in Italy, as well as boosting frequencies on its existing London Luton service to ten weekly flights. In 2017, Wizz Air will have over 380,000 seats on sale on its Varna routes, representing a 260 per cent growth year-on-year.

The new Bucharest-based aircraft, a 180-seat A320, has initially been used to support its new service to Tenerife (launched in November) as well as introduce flights from Bucharest to Hanover and Billund. It has now been switched to a larger 230-seat A321.

Elsewhere in Romania, Wizz Air will add a sixth aircraft to its Cluj-Napoca fleet in March 2017, supporting the opening of four new routes to Stockholm, Bratislava, Larnaca and Malta, as well as the addition of three temporary services to Baden-Baden and Frankfurt Hahn in Germany and Budapest in Hungary that will be operated from Cluj-Napoca while the runway works and Tirgu Mures airport are ongoing.

In Katowice in Poland, strong customer demand mean the airline will bring forward the launch of flights to Catania, Lisbon, Malta and Reykjavik by two weeks. Each new route will be operated with two weekly flights from March 10, 2017.

Wizz Air has also finalised the financing for three new Airbus A320ceo and seven new Airbus A321ceo aircraft being delivered in 2017 and 2018. With this Wizz Air secures its fleet requirements until 2018 when it will reach a significant and important milestone of 100 aircraft. From January 2019, Wizz Air will pass a further milestone as it starts taking delivery of the first of its Airbus A320neo family aircraft.

Friday, December 16, 2016

TUZLA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Passenger number bookings from December
19 to December 31. All data is taken from WIZZ AIR booking system and is
representing bookings completed by December 16. 2016. 13:39 Central European Standard
Time.

The beginning of summer timetable of flights Flydubai will begin
with adding additional frequencies on its Dubai-Sarajevo route. From March 24. 2017, to April 10. 2017, Flydubai will operate three daily flights between
Dubai and Sarajevo. Flydubai is adding additional flights based on the current
bookings and on the request of travel agencies. Bosnia and Herzegovina has
become very popular destination for tourist from United Arab Emirates with an average increase of 30% on yearly basis in the last three years. To cater for raising demand, Flydubai last year offered double daily flights in the peak summer months. The airlines timetable for this summer is still showing daily flights from
June 25 to September 25, but most likely this will change to double daily, as
summer season approaches. Last year in summer timetable of flights Flydubai
offered a total of 55.332 seats on Dubai-Sarajevo-Dubai sector, while this year this number should go above
70.000 seats.

Tuzla International Airport recorded 5,15% passengers growth
comparing to the same month of the last year. Total of 23.619 passengers used the
airport during November. Tuzla airport already passed last year’s record when
it handled 259.074 passengers. Last month Wizz air introduced two new
destinations from Tuzla, London-Luton and Billund with two weekly rotations on
both routes. On Saturday, December 17, Wizz air will introduce one more new
destination from Tuzla, Berlin Schönefeld Airport will be served with two
weekly flights.

With introduction of new flights and additional flights to
Basel for Christmas-New Year Holiday season, Tuzla airport will record around
22.000 passengers in December, bringing year end to total of 305.000 passengers.

According to web portal Tuzlarije.net here are some figures
on Wizz air flight bookings during this and next week. Data as of December 14:

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Wizz air announced today flights Budapes-Sarajevo. Flights
will start on April 5th 2017. with two weekly flights. Flights will
operate on Mondays and Fridays with Airbus 320 aircraft. Flight are already
bookable on Wizzair.com with ticket price starting at 60BAM or €29.99.
Flights to Sarajevo are part of five new routes from Budapest subsidized by HungarianNational Development Ministry. Sarajevo
Airport was connected with Budapest Airport with daily flights by Malev
Hungarian national airline until February 2012 when Malev ceased all operation
and declared bankruptcy.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

BHANSA (Bosnia-Herzegovina), CRO CONTROL (Croatia) and SMATSA (Serbia and Montenegro) – responsible for
managing the airspace of four states –Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia
and Montenegro – are now offering airlines the chance to
plan and execute free route flights around the clock.

The December 8 launch, which follows on from night-time free
route operations since April 2015, will see operations free of fragmentation by
state or airspace borders above FL325.

As such, ) is the first European
FRA concept implemented over the territories of four states, two of which are
members of the FAB CE (Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina) functional airspace
block with Serbia and Montenegro which are not a part of any FAB initiative,
proving that such cooperation is possible, and can be of benefit to all
stakeholders.

(SEA-FRA) South East Axis - Free Route Airspace

The idea of such a large-scale FRA was initiated by ATM
experts of the four providers who shared a common goal of improving safety and
efficiency as well as environmental protection by reducing fuel, CO2 and fuel NOx
emissions.

It is important to point out that the SEAFRA actions were
taken five years prior to the date of January 1, 2022, deadline when unlimited
free use of airspace over 9,000 m across Europe is planned.

This project is one of the key improvements within the EU
initiative on establishing the Single European Sky, regardless of the state
borders or even FAB borders, aiming to enhance safety and efficiency, and to
increase capacity of air traffic in Europe.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Air Commerce was the first Bosnian airline. Private owned but short lived due to the war.

April 4. 1992. JNA (Yugoslav National Army) took control
over the airport and hand it over to Bosnian Serbs paramilitary forces.

June 1992. United Nations took control over the airport for humanitarian purposes (UN Security Council Resolution
757). Mandate for this mission was given to the French detached air force unit
called the "French Detair". At that time
the airport served for UN military purposes and for humanitarian aid flights to
provide basic necessities to the Sarajevo city population.

SJJ 1993

SJJ 1993

The period from June 1992 to December 1995 will be
remembered as the longest humanitarian airlift in history of UN for supplying
the besieged city of Sarajevo.

13.000 operations in more than three years considerably
surpasses Berlin airlift of the Allies for air transport of supplies to West
Berlin.

SJJ 1994

SJJ 1994

The airport re-opened to civilian air traffic on 16
August 1996 and has since been renovated and slowly returned to its former
glory.

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Yesterday (05.12.2016), Sarajevo International Airport has greeted its 800.000 passenger for this year, braking all time record. Gordana Aničić was 800.000th passenger, traveling from Sarajevo to Belgrade with Air Serbia. Lucky passenger was greeted by director of Sarajevo International Airport Mr. Armin Kajmaković and presented with the 200 BAM gift certificate for shopping at the airports duty free shop. Air Serbia representative
at Sarajevo Airport Mr. Emir Dervišević awarded lucky passenger with two free air tickets on any route operated by
Air Serbia. Sarajevo Airport is expecting to finish the year with annual growth of 8,0% or 835.000 passengers. Last year the airport handeled total of 772.904 passangers. 2017 will be another promising year when new airlines and destinations will be introduced. Arrival of Qatar Airways, Wizz air and TUIfly Belgium is expected. With new airlines and destinations airport is looking to handle 900.000 passengers next year.

Monday, December 5, 2016

INCENTIVE SCHEMES TO SUPPORT AIRLINES AND NEW DESTINATIONS1. New Destination 2. Increased frequencies 3. Number of transported passenger 4. Incentive to airlines using Sarajevo Airport as its base.

1.NEW DESTINATION

New destination means a destination not being served from Sarajevo Airport by scheduled airlines. If
an airline stops flying to planned route while enjoying the incentive, such Carrier will lose right on
below incentives from the moment of stopping flights to such a destination. To be granted the
incentive, Carrier has to send a written information about introducing a new destination, as well as a
written request to be granted the incentive.

If the Carrier starts flying on a new destination from the Airport, the following discounts are granted:

First year

30% on landing and take off and 15%
handling fees

Second year

20% on landing and take off and 10%
handling fees

Third year

10% on landing and take off and 10%
handling fees

2. INCREASED FREQUENCIES

A special incentive will be granted to additional scheduled flights introduced by airline, on the
destination that already exists. To be granted such a discount, airline has to send a written information
about increased number of flights, as well as a written request to be granted the incentive. If a
scheduled airline does not realize planned number of operations, it will lose the right on incentives for
the second and third year, while the Airport will make correction of already granted incentive.

First year

20% on landing and take off

Second year

15% on landing and take off

Third year

10% on landing and take off

3. NUMBER OF TRANSPORTED PASSENGERS ON ANNUAL BASIS

Incentive based on number of transported passengers will be granted to airlines on the basis of
statistical data for the previous year. Airline that introduces operations from Sarajevo Airport for the first
time will have right to this incentive after a calendar year is over. To be granted such incentive, the airline
has to send a written request, in compliance with the table below:

Total Annual number of Passengers (Arr &
Dep) at Sarajevo International Airport

Discount (%)

≤ 10.000

0,0

10.001 – 25.000

10,0

25.001 – 50.000

15,0

50.001 – 65.000

17,0

65.001 – 80.000

19,0

80.001 – 100.000

20,0

100.001 – 150.000

22,0

150.001 – 200.000

24,0

> 200.001

25,0

4. INCENTIVE TO AIRLINES USING SARAJEVO AIRPORT AS ITS BASE

Discount on landing and take off price

50%

Discount on aircraft parking price

50%

Carrier having a base at Sarajevo Airport is not entitled to the incentives defined in Items 1 and 2.

The above listed incentives are submitted to Carriers in order to increase and advertise the traffic at the Airport. Airport reserves the right to review and amend the incentive scheme anytime during the defined period.